What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.